Mary Shelley & Frankenstein

Mary Shelley’s Life

• Mary Wallstonecraft Godwin (Shelley)

• 1797 – 1851 London
• Peter’s Church – Bourmemouth

Frankenstein puzzle

Romanticism XVIII-XIX

Gothic Novel

1931

Boris Karloff as Frankenstein's monster

Cheney, Harriet (1771-1848). The Upper Part of Ulswater from Lyulph's Tower., The Wordsworth Trust, Dove Cottage, Grasmere, UK

Agenda

• Mary Shelley’s Life
• Frankenstein
• Gothic and Romanticism
• Frankenstein puzzle

Mary Shelley & Frankenstein

Frankenstein;

or, The Modern Prometheus

1818 - 3

May 1817

October 31, 1831 - 1

1822 - 2

Darmstadt in Germany

"wretch", "creature", "monster", "demon", and "it"